<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I will be giving a three-session course entitled The Birth
of Mathematics at Renesan in March. The catalog blurb appears below. Renesan is
billed as an Institute for Lifelong Learning and for many years has offered a range
of courses and lectures in a variety of fields including Art, Current Events,
History, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, and,
yes indeed, Mathematics. Classes are held in Santa Fe at St. John’s United
Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail. The modest fee is $15 per session. More
information and registration details are available at <a href="http://www.renesan.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">www.renesan.org</a>. I'd be happy to have FRIAM folk participate!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">MATHEMATICS:
S19-01 The Birth of Mathematics</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Instructor: George
Duncan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dates: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Thursday, Mar
14, 21, and 28 at3:15-5:15pm.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3 sessions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mathematics began tens of thousands of years
ago. People energized by both creative spirit and practical need started to figure
with numbers and diagrams, counting (sheep) and drawing plot plans (temples). Highlighted
in this course are key developments in the early history of mathematics,
examining its roots in both number and shape. Requiring no background in
mathematics, it emphasizes nine breakthrough contributions beginning with simple
counting to nine and moving on to larger counts (even beyond a million), to numbers
like π that do count but are not counts, to algebra which plays with symbols, to
geometry that explores shapes. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">erstanding the origins of mathematics gives us
confidence that we can grasp the foundations of the “Queen of the Sciences”. The
mathematical concepts are illustrated with original art work by the instructor.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">George Duncan is an artist and a mathematician.
He is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. His art
work has been shown at Vivo Contemporary on Canyon Road. It appears in public
collections at several universities and in private collections throughout the
US as well as England and Spain. He earned BS and MS degrees at the University
of Chicago and a PhD at the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society,
and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
serves on the Board of Trustees of the Museums of New Mexico Foundation and is
a Lead Trustee for the Museum of Art.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>George Duncan</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University<br><a href="http://georgeduncanart.com/" target="_blank">georgeduncanart.com</a></div><div>See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram</div>
<div>Land: (505) 983-6895 <br></div><div>Mobile: (505) 469-4671</div>
<div> <br>My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight:normal">"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</font></h1><div><span style="font-size:small;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.125em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </font></span></div><table width="85%" style="color:rgb(93,86,81);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;margin:auto;border-collapse:collapse!important"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"><p style="margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:12px"><font size="2">"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</font></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:27px;color:rgb(146,146,146);text-align:center"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>